24 visits || SOOSHU

Visit Four

Reason: Check up

Symptoms: None

Time in: 10:45 am August 17th, 2014

Soojin walked into the room already preparing for the annoyance that was Yeh Shuhua. She'd even had an extra shot of espresso today.

She got the chart from Yuju , seeing no notable difference in weight. Her blood pressure was closer to normal than the last visit, and according to what Yuju gathered from Shuhua, there were no real symptoms. It should have been a quick and easy visit.

But this was Yeh Shuhua.

Soojin walked into the office to find Shuhua already on the examination table, her ankles crossed and hands behind her. She had on shorts and a blue and pink-striped blouse that cut off just above the navel. After two visits to her office, Soojin would think that Shuhua picked up on the fact that it was almost always freezing. And it wasn't like Shuhua couldn't bring a sweater into the office to cover up, Soojin had patients that went as far as to bring in blankets.

It had to be some attention-seeking thing, and Soojin wasn't going to play into it. She would not look anywhere but Shuhua's eyes.

"Ms. Yeh," she greeted.

Shuhua glanced at Soojin and hummed before looking down at her hand. Was she seriously going to do this boring act again? Hadn't this same situation happened the first visit at her practice? Soojin suppressed her eyeroll.

Whatever, Shuhua pretending to be bored was better than Shuhua being completely annoying.

"How are you feeling?" Soojin asked.

Shuhua looked up, gave a small smile. "Good, thank you. Those medicines have really worked, I think."

Soojin paused, her mouth opening as she fished for a reply, but closing when she realized she didn't have one for that. Shuhua wasn't supposed to be polite. She was supposed to be irritating, pompous, entitled; literally anything but polite. Soojin squinted, pressing her tongue against the inside of her cheek.

Soojin set up her stethoscope, readying the bell over Shuhua's heart. "Deep breaths."

Shuhua's heart was still faster than it should be, but a few pills can't fix everything. "Have you experienced any dizzy spells? Nausea, fever? Things like that?" She asked, moving the bell over to Shuhua's back.

"No. And I haven't been as tired lately either."

"Deep breath," she said, her body craned around Shuhua. Soojin listened to the quickened thump thump thump, breathing in herself as she did so. She could smell something sweet, almost like peaches. It was soothing, but then Soojin realized what she was smelling was Shuhua's hair, and opted on holding her breath.

Annoying people didn't get to smell nice, and no matter how Shuhua was acting, she still was an annoying person. Completely irritating and Soojin would still look nowhere but her eyes.

As Soojin reached back around she fumbled, her hand brushing over the skin of Shuhua's mid-drift. Very soft skin, but Shuhua's skin. Soojin jumped back, then let out a slow sigh.

When Soojin looked up at Shuhua, there was no real telling expression on her face. And for once Soojin wished that she would just smirk, or smile or something.

"I, uh--" Soojin breathed in through her nose. Next time she was tripling that espresso. "Your heart is still going a little fast, so make sure you're taking care of that. But other than that, you're free to go. Though you should be getting another round of blood work done soon."

"Of course, Shuhua will do anything the good doctor says."

Soojin narrowed her eyes, her teeth set in a straight line.

Shuhua was at the door by the time Soojin went through the words 5 times in her head. She pressed her hand against the frame leaning into it. "And by the way, Soojin," Soojin's head jolted up at her name coming out of Shuhua's mouth, the S dragged out slow between pressed lips and the J said with an absurd, unneeded flick of the tongue, "since I'm going to be a regular patient now, please call me Shuhua."

With that, she walked away.